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Broadband Growth Declining? We Beg To Differ
Like Mark Twain’s death, reports of a significant decline in broadband growth in the coming years are greatly exaggerated. We at OpenVault have had a bird’s-eye view of the broadband landscape for more than a decade now, and among our observations has been the...
Headline: When the (silicon) chips are down, turn to network management solutions
Like auto shoppers facing a dearth of choices or homeowners deferring a smart appliance purchase, broadband providers are needing to adapt to the worldwide shortage in silicon chips impacting broadband network equipment that is hobbling a return to business as usual....
What’s ahead in 2021? We’ll hazard a guess…
Like any good gift shaker we’ve always been adept at deciphering what broadband consumption will be before it’s unwrapped. After 10 years of providing tools that help the industry manage networks and of using our expertise to analyze the resulting data, we know which...
Expanding to meet unprecedented needs
How do you say “it’s been some year” in German? In French? In Italian or Spanish? No matter what language they're speaking, European broadband providers all are facing the same issues as we close in on the last couple of months of 2020. Like their counterparts in...
Buckle up, kids! It may be a bumpy broadband ride ahead!
Like a dark and unfamiliar road, the next phase of pandemic broadband use lies ahead. While we at OpenVault have become expert at helping our customers stay ahead of trends by roadmapping consumption patterns, we’re suddenly less certain about what awaits. What danger...
What’s your customers’ daily fiber consumption?
Coke or Pepsi. Uber or Lyft. Grubhub or DoorDash. We’re not about to step into the middle of some of the great debates of our time, but when it comes to broadband’s own bones of contention – Fiber vs. HFC – we’ll just say this: no matter what the architecture,...
All bets are off in the new normal, but…
What will the world look like when we return to “normal”? That’s the question that’s driving broadband thinking as we begin to take the first tentative steps out of the COVID-19 tunnel. For all broadband providers – whether they’ve committed to #BroadbandFirst...
What’s the strategy to deal with increased upstream usage?
Like the genie out of the bottle or the toothpaste out of the tube, there’s no going back now that consumers have discovered the true connective power of broadband. Monthly usage run rates of 460 GB per subscriber are putting new pressure on operator networks as...
Distancing? It’s today’s best option for customer care
Broadband consumption is soaring. Usage limits are being waived. And subscribers are using Wi-Fi connected devices for a host of business, educational and entertainment purposes. If ever there was a perfect storm for new thinking around customer care needs, this is...
Ensure that ‘Broadband First’ is ready for ‘Prime Time’
Traditional television viewing is giving way to streaming, but “Prime Time” is still prime time. For cable operators contemplating shifts to “Broadband First” strategies that emphasize video streaming over traditional pay-TV packages, that’s a reality that can’t be...